Forward Deployed Engineer

For Future Consultancy; Greater London; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

For Future Consultancy is seeking a Forward Deployed Engineer to join our partner's engineering team. This hands-on role involves working with customers to understand operations and translate workflows into robust, production-ready software.

You will own projects end-to-end—from discovery and technical specifications through implementation and deployment—building production-grade frontend and backend components and integrating AI-powered features.

Qualifications

• Experience shipping software used by real users.
• Frontend experience with React and TypeScript.
• Backend development with Python or similar.
• Experience integrating AI/ML into production apps.
• Strong communication with non-technical stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Work directly with customers and domain experts across Europe to understand complex operational workflows.
• Translate real-world processes into scalable software solutions.
• Own projects end-to-end, from discovery and technical specification through implementation and deployment.
• Build production-grade frontend applications and backend services.
• Develop and integrate AI-powered functionality, including LLMs, agents and model-backed APIs.
• Design APIs, business logic, data models and user-facing workflows.
• Rapidly prototype, test and iterate based on real customer feedback.
• Work closely with product and engineering teams to identify which customer requirements can become scalable product capabilities.
• Monitor how solutions perform in production and continuously improve them.

Skills

Frontend development

React

TypeScript

Python

AI/ML integration

Job description

We are looking for a Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) to join our partner's engineering team . The company is developing products that help organisations digitise and automate workflows that traditionally rely heavily on manual processes, documents, spreadsheets and legacy systems. Their platform combines modern software engineering with AI to support technical, operational and compliance-related workflows.

As aForward Deployed Engineer, you will work closely with customers to understand how their operations actually work and turn those workflows into robust, production-ready software.

This is a highly hands-on role. You will be involved across the full product lifecycle from understanding customer requirements and defining solutions to building, deploying and iterating on them in production.

What You'll Do

• Work directly with customers and domain experts across Europe to understand complex operational workflows.
• Translate real-world processes into scalable software solutions.
• Own projects end-to-end, from discovery and technical specification through implementation and deployment.
• Build production-grade frontend applications and backend services.
• Develop and integrate AI-powered functionality, including LLMs, agents and model-backed APIs.
• Design APIs, business logic, data models and user-facing workflows.
• Rapidly prototype, test and iterate based on real customer feedback.
• Work closely with product and engineering teams to identify which customer requirements can become scalable product capabilities.
• Monitor how solutions perform in production and continuously improve them.

What We're Looking For

We are looking for strong engineers who enjoy solving ambiguous, real-world problems and working close to customers. You may be a strong fit if you have:

• Experience building and shipping software used by real users.
• Experience with modern frontend development, ideally React and TypeScript or an equivalent framework.
• Backend development experience with Python or another modern backend language.
• Experience integrating AI/ML capabilities into production applications.
• The ability to understand complex workflows and translate them into simple, reliable software.
• Strong communication skills and confidence working directly with non-technical stakeholders.
• A pragmatic, ownership-driven approach to engineering.
• The ability to move quickly while maintaining high engineering standards.